What I am learning as I am immersing in my fieldwork and developing the momentum, at an even greater level than I understood before, is that conducting field interviews itself involves navigating social structure and social dynamics in and of itself. Perhaps a paper can be written on this topic upon the completion of fieldwork, even one that could expand on this post… Just like the deeply embedded hierarchies within the Pakistani society, and within development policy in general, navigating fieldwork in certain environments and contexts much also be hierarchical. In some contexts, going by reference top-down in your snowballing technique is absolutely necessary in order to even be able…